Victoria Finkle is American Banker's Capitol Hill reporter. She previously reported on consumer finance at the paper and before that wrote about environmental policy and regulation at Inside Washington Publishers.
The bipartisan plan could provide relief to small and medium-sized businesses with respect to the employer mandate, but does little to reduce headaches of larger firms.
The latest legislation retains a number of pro-business aspects from the earlier draft, including a delay of the Cadillac tax, removal of employer mandate penalties and expanding and enhancing HSAs.
